Most people have called in sick at least once. But in Germany, workers have been taking more than one day off sick every month for the past year—and the government has had enough. Now, it’s proposing to dock workers’ wages.
German workers take an average of 14.8 sick days per year, giving the country one of the highest rates of absenteeism in Europe. For context, that is four times the U.K.’s sick leave rate.
